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What are your steering techniques?

lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
edited 2011-12-16 11:18 in Robotics
I'm trying to design a 3 or 4 wheel platform where a servo steers the front wheel or wheels. For locomotion a stepper will power one of the rear wheels. I'm researching a parallel-steering set up and I wanted to know if anyone else uses that method?

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  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2011-12-16 10:39
    From my research it seems differential steering is more common than parallel so I will go with differential. The extra hardware would add slop that I'd have to compensate for. It would make more sense to use math to get the precision I'm after.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2011-12-16 11:18
    Mechanical simplicity and stability is critical. Good choice!
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